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  1. Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
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  3. In article <14101@cs.utexas.edu> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:
  4. >>What happens if you do an ``ls -l'' on /dev/fd, ...
  5. >You get something that looks like ...
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  7. That's the most common implementation.  However, /dev/fd could also be
  8. implemented as a filesystem type of its own, and I'd actually prefer
  9. that.  Then an "ls /dev/fd" would show just the in-use file descriptors.
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  11. Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 9
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